A JetBlue flight transporting passengers to San Diego diverted from its planned route and made an emergency landing at a regional airport in central Kansas Saturday evening.
The Airbus plane flying from New York’s John F. Kennedy airport had landed due to smoke in the cockpit, a representative of the Salina Airport Authority told KSNW, the NBC affiliate in Wichita, Kansas.
“The pilot came on and let us know that he was seeing an alert for smoke in the cargo bay,” said Seth Odell, a passenger on the flight. “Some passengers did report hearing a loud bang, too,” he added…